Posted on 04/30/2009 8:39:44 AM PDT by OneVike
This is the best idea yet. Be sure and read the whole thing. I was checking cruise lines because I heard the rates are very cheap right now. I found a Somali cruise package that departs from Sawakin (in the Sudan) and docks at Bagamoya (in Tanzania ).
The cost is a bit high @ $800 per person double occupancy but I didn’t find that offensive. What I found encouraging and enlightened is that the cruise is encouraging people to bring their ‘High powered weapons’ along on the cruise. If you don’t have your own weapons you can rent them right there on the boat. They claim to have a master gunsmith on board and will have reloading parties every afternoon as well as national marksmanship training. The cruise lasts from 4-8 days and nights and costs a maximum of $3200 per person double occupancy (4 days). All the boat does is sail up and down the coast of Somalia waiting to get hijacked by pirates. Here are some of the costs and claims associated with the package.
(Excerpt) Read more at norcalblogs.com ...
But I would have to work up some pet rounds pretty quick. Hopefully they have something on board where you can bench rest and sight in.
I think I would bring my old No. 4 Long Branch sniper rifle in .303 British (complete with original scope) . . . just for old times sake. I'd even bring my ammo as well as powder, primers and loose bullets. Just think of the romance factor of a British military rifle going after the Mad Mullahs after a hundred years.
I was going to suggest a cruise catered to NRA members!
LOL!!!
[I have a juvenile attachment to exclamation symbols - !!!!!!]
That kind of thing would really solve the piracy problem.
My God the .50’s are expensive! My son has run through these by the pound and then some.
: )
Sure be a lot of fun saying up periscope and fire one.
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